Additional social assistance

RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS

Persons with special needs – for example, pregnant women, unaccompanied children, families with many children, persons with chronic diseases are entitled, while being in the procedure, to file an application before the Bulgarian social services in order to receive additional assistance.

In relation to filing an application for additional social assistance, you can approach for help the Agency staff in the camp where you are accommodated, as well as the organisations of the Bulgarian Red Cross (BRC) or The Council of Refugee Women.

GENERAL CONDITIONS / DISCLAIMER

This website was developed in June 2014 and was revised in December 2017 at the request of and with the financial support of the Representation in Bulgaria of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The author of the information on the website is lawyer Iliana Savova, Director of the Refugees’ and Migrants’ Legal Protection Programme of the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC).

The information has been drafted in the Bulgarian language. The contracting authority and the author are not liable for the quality of the translated versions into other languages.

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